You've got what I need to do backwards. I want to delete the attachment and *keep* the email so I have a complete reference for the conversation. That's not possible as far as I know.
I do development with team members who are (decidedly) not local. I get builds, test binaries and datasets, etc. on a regular basis. They have no use after a day or so, once the issue, whatever it is, has been dealt with. But the discussions that go along with are, and often contain various levels of other issues.
And yes, I'm using many times the storage you are.
You can do the same thing with an iPad. The Kindle's actual *on* time is about 15 hours , while the iPad's on time with the Kindle app is also about 15 hours with wifi and 3G off (I do read for that long at a stretch at times.) You can't *read* your Kindle for days. You read it an hour here, a half hour there... but you can do the same thing with an iPad. Why? Because the iPad has a hell of a lot more battery capacity to account for that backlight power draw.
They have offices in Hamburg, and they also do business with German advertisers, selling the information of German citizens.
Easily rectified. Hopefully that's exactly what will happen. Let's see if FB, a company of enfeebled, ethics-free idiots if there ever was one, has the sense to figure it out. In the meantime, Germans can continue to shoot themselves in the foot all they want.
That's a mistake that can be easily rectified. Facebook can, and hopefully will, remove their sub-agency from your country. It isn't relevant to the issue at hand, which is FB is an American operation, not a German one.
If i were to start selling greeting cards full of anthrax which i shipped to your country, would you just decide that people in your country should not use my greeting card service?
That's all fine. You know the Facebook servers are here in the US, right? You know you can "opt out" of Facebook by simply not using it, right? Also that Germany can cripple its nameservers, etc., by not allowing access to Facebook, right? (oh, and also that any user can get around that with zero problems) You know that the office in Germany is not what you connect to when you connect to Facebook, right?
Facebook is a scumbag company. Ethical retards. They scam users out of personal data -- that's their entire gig. So the problem here appears to be that you're using them. Stop that. See how easy that was?
Wait, you say you want to use them? Sorry, I didn't realize you were idiots.
You have it backwards. If German users want to use a US service, they can deal with how the service works as constituted in its home country. If the Germans don't want to use some service, they always have that option. This is legal fuckery, no more. Typical mommy government idiocy.
I'm no fan of Facebook -- quite the opposite, in fact, I outright despise them -- but again, my answer is not to use Facebook, not to try to tell them what they can or cannot do.
If Google wants to build a "great email experience", they've got a few basic things to do yet where gmail falls down hard. For instance, gmail supports multiple reply addresses for those who manage more than one domain or have more than one email home, but the filters don't let you set the reply field based on the to: field, you have to do it manually every time, so errors in reply addresses are quite common; They don't properly support mono-spaced fonts, so server reports and other data that depend on field alignment come out trashed; the "themes" they offer are so basic they're almost useless, you can't control font or backdrop colors, so calling it a "theme" is pushing the envelope a bit. You can't delete attachments in order to manage the amount of space you use (obviously they're just trying to get you to go over the "free" amount so you have to pay, but it's a PITA no matter why it's done -- many emails I have have binaries attached that are one-time or throwaway, but keeping the email itself is very important to me (development issues, etc.)) I should also note that all of these issues were handled properly by Eudora over a decade ago -- these capabilities aren't exactly brand new ideas, or for that matter, difficult in any way.
I like web-mail, the convenience is very high, but Google's implementation is strictly amateur. Reminiscent of of Google base, although that is even worse -- adding broadly unpredictable unreliability and no usable support to a minimalist (read, amateur) feature set.
You could probably hit an army with it, most of the time, but hitting an individual would be very very difficult indeed.
That's nonsense. I can put an arrow into the bullseye on a target with every shot until my pulling arm is so tired it's shaking, using a non compound bow. That's an area a lot smaller than your torso; I think I could put it through a fist-sized spot repeatedly, given time to aim and a predictable target. I've also seen experts, Japanese, who can hit a swinging fist sized target from the back of a moving horse -- every time. While wearing traditional armor. I think you just never developed much skill with a bow. Like any weapon, it rewards skill and penalizes the casual user.
They won't penetrate like a bullet
Never seen a hunting arrowhead, eh? Nasty things. They do quite a bit of damage. No one has claimed they were bullets, though, most of what you had to say there is straw man stuff; the point is, you can kill people with them, as we well know from history, and of course, the bow hunters here kill animals with them all the time.
No, the problem is that in 5 years, the climate will have changed by such a tiny fraction of a degree that, just as in the past ten years, it'll be basically irrelevant to anything and everything. And in 100 years, where enough change might accumulate to make a (very, very slight) difference, people will naturally and inexpensively adjust (move, change crops, rebuild waterfront installations) to whatever comes without really noticing why.
CO2 absorption is limited; there's a limited amount of IR to absorb, and it's nonlinear, and feedback systems (like evap/precip) will accelerate to compensate, and the climate graphs show that CO2 increases lag warm periods (not lead), so this whole CO2 causing warm periods is a guess without any prior evidence, the models don't actually work globally (though they are abused to "predict" GLOBAL climate change) which should be a HUGE red flag for anyone trying to use them as evidence for anything, etc., etc., etc.
But hey, you get right on with your "sky is falling" thing, there. Keeps you distracted from things like your liberties and freedoms being taken away, government encouragement and sponsorship of religious delusions, overfishing, strip mining, etc.
Yes. And you then lose information I have but won't share, since you aren't inclined to consider that it has any value. Consequently, I've no motivation to share it, so you can either come up with it on your own (doubtful, as you've already demonstrated you can't even think straight) or do without (very likely indeed) since while you want information to be free, I want to eat, and it's *my* choice to release the information or not, and as you've made information difficult to earn with, I'll just do something else. You selfish, stupid fuck.:o)
Reeeeeaaaaalllyyy? JFK could have been killed with a stone from I don't know how many yards away?
Yes. The weapon is called a sling, and they can be deadly at ranges up to 400 meters. World record is presently 477 meters. A crossbow would work at long range, as would a longbow, and they tend to be quite accurate as well.
Sorry, but that is local or state outbreak of common sense, easily broken by requiring periodic re-appraisal for taxes.
FTFY
Increasing property taxes on an existing owner makes ZERO sense. They're not making any more money living there. They're not earning more from their boss because some wank appraiser likes their flower garden, or because they added a porch. All you're doing is slowly making it more and more expensive for them to live the same way they always have, until you drive them out. You want to increase income, charge more for services; if water costs more, charge more for it. If keeping the street lights lit costs more, levy for that (of course, ask the people first, they might like to see the night sky again instead of light pollution) and keep it separate and obvious -- NOT part of property taxes. If they don't pay, turn off the local streetlight.
Property taxes are VERY questionable in any case. But the way they are implemented in states that increase them in place is straight up robbery.
Yes, and meanwhile there has been an explosion of six figure salaries in "administration."
This. And also, six and seven and eight figure salaries in corporations, yes, those same corporations who won't hire anyone, but are delighted to offshore production while at the same time offshoring income so they don't pay the amount of tax they were intended to, thus putting more of it (taxes) on the backs of the middle class.
But, hey, keep electing rich fucks to political positions, and keep wondering why the tax laws/loopholes favor the rich, while your household budget shrinks every year. It's a frigging mystery, isn't it?
Here in Montana, we don't have sales taxes. So they'd definitely be new. Of course, we don't generally need new taxes, because part of the state constitution requires that the state budget be balanced every year. Not that the weasels in the capital don't try to get around that, but by and large, things stay well within reasonable bounds.
Our main problem here comes from federal entitlements: specifically, indian reservations. Those are the running sores in our economic picture.
Sure, you can do it all digitally, but the expense behind digital cameras, flat panel display so everyone can see, requiring someone technically adept and posting all the photos, etc. makes a Polaroid seem too simple.
See, the problem is... you've failed to do the math. Quite aside from the cost of the camera, Polaroids were (usually considerably) more than $1/shot. And they're low-resolution. And they're slow. And they smell. And they're a waste of paper, *particularly* in the role you cast them here. Know how I know? Used to use them as tests before committing to 35mm.
You know why I finally spent thousands on a DSLR, lenses, flashes, and so forth?
Because tech -- host computers, sensors, camera hardware -- had finally advanced far enough so that I wouldn't ever have to [make a / order a / send for a] print again.
Now Polaroid wants to sell me a camera that... that...
can be available 24/7 (excepting power issues, but if it's always inside it can probably be plugged in most of the time)
Ultracaps: 1/10th the power of batteries, so 1/10th the run time, but... instant recharge, and effectively unlimited numbers of them. So the robot can drop a hand on a charge plate for about one second, then work for say, ten or twenty minutes. No need for it to have an extended run time if charging isn't a big issue.
I am totally ready to buy -- even if it's *quite* expensive -- when I can buy a dependable robot in humanoid form that does all our housework. Wash (or load and start) the dishes, sweep/vacuum the floors, wash windows, do the laundry, sort and put away when clean, change the bedding and make the bed, clean the sinks, toilets, shower and tub, dust, polish the woodwork, bring coffee, cook and serve dinner, clean up afterwards, feed and water the cat, clean the catbox, be able to put away CDs and DVDs in alpha/title order, put away anything else where it goes, understand English at a decent level appropriate to its tasks, and be seriously off-putting (through the intercom) to religious folk and salespeople who come to the door.
Doesn't have to do outdoor work like mow the lawn, etc., thing will probably be as expensive as my house, at least initially, so I don't think we'd be comfortable with it wandering around outside... and besides, there's plenty to do in the house.:o)
If it's *really* humanoid, say french maid / english butler quality, I'll pay more.
I mean, I'm glad they've got Asimo v.X jumping on one foot. That kind of dexterity has got to be there, along with everything else... but it sure doesn't make the sale for me.
Oh, good grief. Something odd with the javascript; I refreshed, and my browser moved the 2-up comment where it was supposed to be. My apologies. It's where it ought to be.
In a public debate an expert is able to sway thousands or millions of votes by putting forward a coherent, well reasoned and evidence based argument in favour(sic) of their position.
I'm ignoring the supposed benefit of public debate because we already have them -- in multiple forms, such as public hearings, opportunities for comment, etc. -- and they don't work. The reason they don't work is because all people care about is their own best interests as they see them; they don't bother with technical or detailed discussions. It's the political equivalent of tl;dr, driven by a deep disinterest in anyone's issues but their own. And this, of course, assumes that the system in place would even listen: recent "petitions" requested by our own government show that if what is asked for isn't in line with policy -- even when it is clearly better for the population at large -- is ignored, and for the same reason: a democratic republic with no considerations of merit for decision makers and an ineffective constitution is run by people who make decisions based on no more than self-interest.
I don't think debate will be stifled or prevented: I think it will be ignored. The evidence is all around us. Excellent arguments are presented on this very site for healthcare, for atheism, for third-party voting, etc. They are roundly ignored, and further, the answers or attempts at justification are often ludicrous or worse. The number of people who will swing their vote or opinion based on what makes sense is unfortunately small. Large majorities take positions based upon the perception of what a choice will do for (or to) them. It's the most common manifestation of human nature. The only thing that I think might work -- and no, I don't know how to get it instantiated -- is a meritocracy composed of the altruistic.
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You've got what I need to do backwards. I want to delete the attachment and *keep* the email so I have a complete reference for the conversation. That's not possible as far as I know.
I do development with team members who are (decidedly) not local. I get builds, test binaries and datasets, etc. on a regular basis. They have no use after a day or so, once the issue, whatever it is, has been dealt with. But the discussions that go along with are, and often contain various levels of other issues.
And yes, I'm using many times the storage you are.
You can do the same thing with an iPad. The Kindle's actual *on* time is about 15 hours , while the iPad's on time with the Kindle app is also about 15 hours with wifi and 3G off (I do read for that long at a stretch at times.) You can't *read* your Kindle for days. You read it an hour here, a half hour there... but you can do the same thing with an iPad. Why? Because the iPad has a hell of a lot more battery capacity to account for that backlight power draw.
From Amazon, taken from the Kindle page:
That's 30 x .5, or 15 hours of operation, total.
Easily rectified. Hopefully that's exactly what will happen. Let's see if FB, a company of enfeebled, ethics-free idiots if there ever was one, has the sense to figure it out. In the meantime, Germans can continue to shoot themselves in the foot all they want.
That's a mistake that can be easily rectified. Facebook can, and hopefully will, remove their sub-agency from your country. It isn't relevant to the issue at hand, which is FB is an American operation, not a German one.
Yes, of course. What a stupid question.
That's all fine. You know the Facebook servers are here in the US, right? You know you can "opt out" of Facebook by simply not using it, right? Also that Germany can cripple its nameservers, etc., by not allowing access to Facebook, right? (oh, and also that any user can get around that with zero problems) You know that the office in Germany is not what you connect to when you connect to Facebook, right?
Facebook is a scumbag company. Ethical retards. They scam users out of personal data -- that's their entire gig. So the problem here appears to be that you're using them. Stop that. See how easy that was?
Wait, you say you want to use them? Sorry, I didn't realize you were idiots.
You know that office isn't what you connect to when you connect to Facebook?
A mistake that can be easily corrected. :o)
You have it backwards. If German users want to use a US service, they can deal with how the service works as constituted in its home country. If the Germans don't want to use some service, they always have that option. This is legal fuckery, no more. Typical mommy government idiocy.
I'm no fan of Facebook -- quite the opposite, in fact, I outright despise them -- but again, my answer is not to use Facebook, not to try to tell them what they can or cannot do.
If Google wants to build a "great email experience", they've got a few basic things to do yet where gmail falls down hard. For instance, gmail supports multiple reply addresses for those who manage more than one domain or have more than one email home, but the filters don't let you set the reply field based on the to: field, you have to do it manually every time, so errors in reply addresses are quite common; They don't properly support mono-spaced fonts, so server reports and other data that depend on field alignment come out trashed; the "themes" they offer are so basic they're almost useless, you can't control font or backdrop colors, so calling it a "theme" is pushing the envelope a bit. You can't delete attachments in order to manage the amount of space you use (obviously they're just trying to get you to go over the "free" amount so you have to pay, but it's a PITA no matter why it's done -- many emails I have have binaries attached that are one-time or throwaway, but keeping the email itself is very important to me (development issues, etc.)) I should also note that all of these issues were handled properly by Eudora over a decade ago -- these capabilities aren't exactly brand new ideas, or for that matter, difficult in any way.
I like web-mail, the convenience is very high, but Google's implementation is strictly amateur. Reminiscent of of Google base, although that is even worse -- adding broadly unpredictable unreliability and no usable support to a minimalist (read, amateur) feature set.
That's nonsense. I can put an arrow into the bullseye on a target with every shot until my pulling arm is so tired it's shaking, using a non compound bow. That's an area a lot smaller than your torso; I think I could put it through a fist-sized spot repeatedly, given time to aim and a predictable target. I've also seen experts, Japanese, who can hit a swinging fist sized target from the back of a moving horse -- every time. While wearing traditional armor. I think you just never developed much skill with a bow. Like any weapon, it rewards skill and penalizes the casual user.
Never seen a hunting arrowhead, eh? Nasty things. They do quite a bit of damage. No one has claimed they were bullets, though, most of what you had to say there is straw man stuff; the point is, you can kill people with them, as we well know from history, and of course, the bow hunters here kill animals with them all the time.
No, the problem is that in 5 years, the climate will have changed by such a tiny fraction of a degree that, just as in the past ten years, it'll be basically irrelevant to anything and everything. And in 100 years, where enough change might accumulate to make a (very, very slight) difference, people will naturally and inexpensively adjust (move, change crops, rebuild waterfront installations) to whatever comes without really noticing why.
CO2 absorption is limited; there's a limited amount of IR to absorb, and it's nonlinear, and feedback systems (like evap/precip) will accelerate to compensate, and the climate graphs show that CO2 increases lag warm periods (not lead), so this whole CO2 causing warm periods is a guess without any prior evidence, the models don't actually work globally (though they are abused to "predict" GLOBAL climate change) which should be a HUGE red flag for anyone trying to use them as evidence for anything, etc., etc., etc.
But hey, you get right on with your "sky is falling" thing, there. Keeps you distracted from things like your liberties and freedoms being taken away, government encouragement and sponsorship of religious delusions, overfishing, strip mining, etc.
Yes. And you then lose information I have but won't share, since you aren't inclined to consider that it has any value. Consequently, I've no motivation to share it, so you can either come up with it on your own (doubtful, as you've already demonstrated you can't even think straight) or do without (very likely indeed) since while you want information to be free, I want to eat, and it's *my* choice to release the information or not, and as you've made information difficult to earn with, I'll just do something else. You selfish, stupid fuck. :o)
LOL. Yeah, that's because we have things to say that don't fit in 140 characters. Imagine that! (he does... comes up with tl;dr)
Yes. The weapon is called a sling, and they can be deadly at ranges up to 400 meters. World record is presently 477 meters. A crossbow would work at long range, as would a longbow, and they tend to be quite accurate as well.
FTFY
Increasing property taxes on an existing owner makes ZERO sense. They're not making any more money living there. They're not earning more from their boss because some wank appraiser likes their flower garden, or because they added a porch. All you're doing is slowly making it more and more expensive for them to live the same way they always have, until you drive them out. You want to increase income, charge more for services; if water costs more, charge more for it. If keeping the street lights lit costs more, levy for that (of course, ask the people first, they might like to see the night sky again instead of light pollution) and keep it separate and obvious -- NOT part of property taxes. If they don't pay, turn off the local streetlight.
Property taxes are VERY questionable in any case. But the way they are implemented in states that increase them in place is straight up robbery.
This. And also, six and seven and eight figure salaries in corporations, yes, those same corporations who won't hire anyone, but are delighted to offshore production while at the same time offshoring income so they don't pay the amount of tax they were intended to, thus putting more of it (taxes) on the backs of the middle class.
But, hey, keep electing rich fucks to political positions, and keep wondering why the tax laws/loopholes favor the rich, while your household budget shrinks every year. It's a frigging mystery, isn't it?
Here in Montana, we don't have sales taxes. So they'd definitely be new. Of course, we don't generally need new taxes, because part of the state constitution requires that the state budget be balanced every year. Not that the weasels in the capital don't try to get around that, but by and large, things stay well within reasonable bounds.
Our main problem here comes from federal entitlements: specifically, indian reservations. Those are the running sores in our economic picture.
No, no, I've tried them... they just go up in smoke when you try to recharge them.
See, the problem is... you've failed to do the math. Quite aside from the cost of the camera, Polaroids were (usually considerably) more than $1/shot. And they're low-resolution. And they're slow. And they smell. And they're a waste of paper, *particularly* in the role you cast them here. Know how I know? Used to use them as tests before committing to 35mm.
You know why I finally spent thousands on a DSLR, lenses, flashes, and so forth?
Because tech -- host computers, sensors, camera hardware -- had finally advanced far enough so that I wouldn't ever have to [make a / order a / send for a] print again.
Now Polaroid wants to sell me a camera that... that...
BWHAHAAHAHAH
Ultracaps: 1/10th the power of batteries, so 1/10th the run time, but... instant recharge, and effectively unlimited numbers of them. So the robot can drop a hand on a charge plate for about one second, then work for say, ten or twenty minutes. No need for it to have an extended run time if charging isn't a big issue.
As for the rest, yes, exactly.
I am totally ready to buy -- even if it's *quite* expensive -- when I can buy a dependable robot in humanoid form that does all our housework. Wash (or load and start) the dishes, sweep/vacuum the floors, wash windows, do the laundry, sort and put away when clean, change the bedding and make the bed, clean the sinks, toilets, shower and tub, dust, polish the woodwork, bring coffee, cook and serve dinner, clean up afterwards, feed and water the cat, clean the catbox, be able to put away CDs and DVDs in alpha/title order, put away anything else where it goes, understand English at a decent level appropriate to its tasks, and be seriously off-putting (through the intercom) to religious folk and salespeople who come to the door.
Doesn't have to do outdoor work like mow the lawn, etc., thing will probably be as expensive as my house, at least initially, so I don't think we'd be comfortable with it wandering around outside... and besides, there's plenty to do in the house. :o)
If it's *really* humanoid, say french maid / english butler quality, I'll pay more.
I mean, I'm glad they've got Asimo v.X jumping on one foot. That kind of dexterity has got to be there, along with everything else... but it sure doesn't make the sale for me.
Oh, good grief. Something odd with the javascript; I refreshed, and my browser moved the 2-up comment where it was supposed to be. My apologies. It's where it ought to be.
I'm ignoring the supposed benefit of public debate because we already have them -- in multiple forms, such as public hearings, opportunities for comment, etc. -- and they don't work. The reason they don't work is because all people care about is their own best interests as they see them; they don't bother with technical or detailed discussions. It's the political equivalent of tl;dr, driven by a deep disinterest in anyone's issues but their own. And this, of course, assumes that the system in place would even listen: recent "petitions" requested by our own government show that if what is asked for isn't in line with policy -- even when it is clearly better for the population at large -- is ignored, and for the same reason: a democratic republic with no considerations of merit for decision makers and an ineffective constitution is run by people who make decisions based on no more than self-interest.
I don't think debate will be stifled or prevented: I think it will be ignored. The evidence is all around us. Excellent arguments are presented on this very site for healthcare, for atheism, for third-party voting, etc. They are roundly ignored, and further, the answers or attempts at justification are often ludicrous or worse. The number of people who will swing their vote or opinion based on what makes sense is unfortunately small. Large majorities take positions based upon the perception of what a choice will do for (or to) them. It's the most common manifestation of human nature. The only thing that I think might work -- and no, I don't know how to get it instantiated -- is a meritocracy composed of the altruistic.